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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: English (speakers) decaying
Message-ID: <1916@orca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 12:55:07 EST
Article-I.D.: orca.1916
Posted: Mon Dec  2 12:55:07 1985
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Reply-To: andrew@lemming.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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>>>"May I ask who's calling?"  "You sure may."
>>"Do you know what time it is?"  "Yes I do."
>>"Would you mind telling me the time?"  "Not at all."
>>"What time do you have?"  "I have Pacific Standard Time."
>"May I ask a question?"  "You just did."
>"May I ask another question?"  "You just did."

Am I the only one who thinks that this sort of reply reflects poorly on
the maturity and sensitivity of the replier, rather than on the
cleverness of the asker?  This is the sort of behavior you expect from
a twelve-year-old.

Maybe I have a distorted notion of the average age of Usenet
correspondents   :-)

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]